As always the moment she woke up she reached out for him. Truly expecting him to be there and waking up fully the second she realised he wasn't. she sat up and looked around. There was no trace of him in the room. She slipped out of bed and throwing on her jersey she went down stairs, only to be hit with the smell of coffee. Uh coffee… she thought getting to her kitchen. Jane was standing at her sink looking out the window.
"Good morning." She said walking over to him. He turned slowly.
"Morning. I made you coffee." He smiled and picked up a cup from the countertop. She put a hand out.
"No coffee for me. Tea please." He grinned
"Tea?" she groaned.
"Don't look at me like that. I've banned all comments on my new taste in beverage at the office so don't you start!" she sat an the kitchen table.
"Tea it is. Milk? Sugar?" he was still smiling.
"Just milk." She watched him moving her around kitchen as if it was his own. "So you're staying. No matter what I say." She said. He turned.
"I'm not going anywhere. Maybe I can even help find the killer. Bring me home the case file tonight and I'll take a look."
"Oh I have work today." She said taking the cup from him. He laughed.
"Yes you do." He leant down over her and whispered. ""Was I that good last night that I made you forget everything." He grinned. She swatted at him.
"Can you behave yourself for the day while I'm gone?" she stood up taking a large drink from the cup.
"I'm sure I'll manage." She smiled and turned back towards her room.
/ / / / /
She flattened down her jacket and looked at herself in the mirror.
"Why are you covering it up?" Jane asked coming in the door.
"I don't want everyone to know yet…" she said.
"You don't want Hightower to know."
""Well… yes." She tied the jacket.
"You'll have to tell her."
"I could get away with another few weeks." She shrugged. He walked over and pointedly put a hand onto her stomach.
"Really…" he rose an eyebrow at her. over the years she'd learned when not to argue.
"I'll tell her."
"Today?" she gritted her teeth.
"Today." She sighed.
"Do you want me to be there?"
"You are not leaving this apartment! You understand me. Jane I mean it if you ever listen to something I ever say, let this be it. Stay here."
"Ok ok!" he held up his hands.
"Right I better head to the office. I flew out of there yesterday."
"Be safe. And have fun with Hightower." He grinned and sat down on her bed. She turned to leave but he grabbed her wrist and pulled her back. Bringing his face to her stomach he kissed it lightly. "Bye."
She left with the biggest smile on her face.
/ / / / /
Wayne was on look out for the boss that morning. Grace had given him strict instructions to call them when she got in. they had no idea what had happened with Jane and the anticipation was really getting to Van Pelt. He couldn't tear his eyes off the elevator door for fear he'd miss her, and have to endure the wrath of his girlfriend, but he was really hoping she would arrive soon as he was beginning to creep people out. Just as he thought about maybe going back to his desk the elevator 'dinged' and the petite brunette they'd been waiting for walked in.
"Boss! Good morning." He said louder then necessary to let the others know.
"Morning Rigsby." She said throwing him a questioning look.
"How are you?" he asked. She rolled her eyes.
"Get everyone into my office." She said and she walked past him.
"Yes boss." He nodded and quickly went to get Cho and Grace from the kitchen. They were in her office before she had a chance to sit down.
She looked up at the three of them.
"He's back. I'm trying to convince him to go but he wont. He wants in on the case. so I'll be bringing home the file tonight."
"Not really what we were interested in Boss." Grace said holding back a frustrated sigh.
"He… he's making me tell Hightower. Today. We're very excited." She couldn't help but grin. Grace clapped. "Now back to work." She looked down, dismissing them all.
/ / / / /
"We should call over tonight." Van Pelt said, sitting down as she opened her lunch.
"Oh Yes we should! We should take something." Rigsby nodded. She had really gotten him excited about it.
"Count me out of it." Cho said, not looking up from his cup-o-soup.
"Oh you have to! It would be great to have the whole team meet him! We can talk through the case, we might get somewhere if we're all there." Grace said, appealing to Cho's logic.
"That somehow makes sense." He nodded. Rigsby just looked over at Grace who held back a laugh and shrugged.
/ / / / /
"Lisbon are you coming in here some time today or are you just going to walk backwards and forwards by my door all day?" Hightower said not looking up from the file in her hands. The senior agent put her head down and walked in.
"Sorry boss. I need to talk to you." She said standing in front of her desk.
"Yes?" she looked up and raised an eyebrow.
"I need to tell you…" she started. "I need to tell you that I'm…" she shook her head. "Pregnant." She spat out. "I'm pregnant." She looked up at her superior, who just smiled.
"About time." She said and Lisbon almost gasped. "Right we'll discuss your field work in another few weeks, cause I'm sure you won't want to be confined in your office just yet. Congratulations Teresa."
Lisbon looked at her.
"Don't you want to know who the father is?" she asked.
"Your personal life is your personal life, as long as it doesn't affect our working environment…" Lisbon interrupted.
"But it's J…" Hightower put up a hand.
"As long as he doesn't disrupt our working environment more then he already does." She smirked and looked back down. Lisbon was in complete shock and taking that as her dismissal she turned to leave. "Oh Teresa please tell Rigsby I told him so."
Her jaw almost dropped.
/ / / / / /
"We'll of course she knew!" Jane said as Lisbon pulled a t-shirt on after discarding her work suit.
"How! I avoided her for weeks."
"Madeline is a very intuitive, she probably figured it out before you even began to hide it from her he shrugged as the walked down the stairs. She fell back on the couch and put her head in her hands.
"Oh this is awful. So unprofessional!" she muttered. He leaned down in front of her.
"Lis…" he was cut off when the doorbell rang. "Who could that…" Lisbon jumped up.
"Jane go hide upstairs! Now." She said terrified that there was a New York officer at the door.
"But i…" he started.
"Upstairs!" he jumped slightly and help up his hands.
"Ok, ok." He turned and made his way up the stairs. She slowly walked towards the door. Making sure he was out of sight she reached for the handle.
"Boss it's us! Open up." Rigsby's voice said from behind the door. she opened the door to be greeted by her whole unit.
"What are you doing here?" she asked.
"We thought we'd come by and help with the case." Grace said holding up case files.
"Is that Grace!" Jane shouted.
"Jane what did I tell you! That could have been anyone." She turned back.
"But its not its Van Pelt!" he said jumping down the stairs two at a time.
"Jane!" Van Pelt smiled and hugged him as he reached them.
"Jane good to see you man!" Cho said, smiling at him.
"It's good to see you all." He said grinning. "Come in come in!" Lisbon looked on as he brought them all into her home.
"Jane the next time I tell you hide please hide." She said shaking her head.
"Yes Teresa." He said rolling his eyes.
They all sat down on the couch and placed the files on the coffee table.
"We thought we could come over and sort out this case together." Rigsby said.
"A brilliant idea!" Jane said sitting down.
"I'll get the coffee so I guess." Lisbon said realising there was no stopping them.
"I'll help." Grace said jumping up. The two women went to the kitchen as the men began chatting.
"You look great! We haven't seen you in anything that isn't baggy." Grace laughed.
"well Hightower knows now so there's no real need for the baggy shirts. Apparently they did nothing to hide it anyway."
"Good you look way to good to hide it!" she grinned. The senior agent laughed and grabbed the mugs.
